Test ride: Ducati Monster 1200evo

[weeksy]

Had the chance to ride GPs monster 1200 Evo today.

Sitting on it it has quite a low seat and your legs are not exactly squished but it's not a big naked that's for sure. Wide bars and they feel quite far away from you, so a bit of a lean. But comfy with it.

Snicking through the box it's got a lovely and responsive action, very precise, every change is silky smooth. Not that you need many as it's the sort of bike that in the UK you can just put in 3rd or 4th and be golden. It's lumpy at low Ron, but what would you expect, it's a big stomping twin.

Speaking of that, jeeez it's got grunt. It comes with big wallops of power, but very very smooth with it. Low Ron, high rpm, smooth. There's no jerky throttle or what we think of as FI issues. Lovely.

On the open road, I'd like a screen, but other that that, it's nice. Personally I find it a bit stiff, a bit cramped in the knees, but nothing we couldn't accept.

Exhaust wise, god it's making my ears bleed, they're loud, more so on the over run when you let off throttle. Bit loud for me.

All in all, as you'd expect really, a lovely lovely bike.

[KungFooBob]

I though he had a 1200?

[weeksy]

Errrm think it's an 1100

[KungFooBob]

This is his 1200...



The difference is water cooling and about 40bhp to the 1100 EVO

[G.P]

Just Change the Thread Title to Monster 1200 and we're all good.

Glad you liked it, and for the record, the exhaust is standard, god knows how it got through whatever it is exhausts have to go through!

I have a monster 1100 evo on my fantasy garage list. I know Ducati do an aircooled 1100 Scrambler but in my book, the 110 evo was the last proper aircooled Monster.

[Couchy]

They wheelie epic don’t they ?

[weeksy]

They wheelie epic don’t they ?

Didn't seem to.